This post is in relation to my involvement in The Quick Start Challenge 2015. Our Week 1 challenge was to get a blog launched and make a post in relation to the challenge. I created this blog in preparation for the challenge and have now added this new Video Post. The ‘About Me’ page is coming up next [Edited: July 13th, 2015] About me page has now been added..

A simple tweak to improve wordpress security

With some WordPress installers, the default WordPress installation has a username of ‘admin’.

You should change this admin username because if your site does suffer a hacking attempt and you haven’t removed the default user, the hacker would already have half of the login credentials and would only have to do a ‘brute-force’ attack to try to guess your password.

In this video I will show you how to add a new administrator and then remove the previous default admin username.Continue reading